Tracey Hickey - We Work Better Under Pressure

Incurable procrastinators
Half-assed research papers
Citation generators
Midnight printer failures
Friends become our saviors
Sweating, swearing till the end
Double-spacing is our friend
I fail this thing I’m dead
Keeping on our toes
'Beeping instant-message windows
Loudly cursing EBSCO
MLA or no?
Parents shouting on the sidelines
Swapping format guidelines
Still need three more sources
Why’d we take these courses?
'This work was cited really poorly'
'Can you proofread for me? '
'What paragraph are you on? '
This is how we bond.
Should’ve started last week
Sleep is for the weak
You can’t say we’re lazy:
Look how hard we’re working!
How is effort measured?
We work better under pressure!

Tracey Hickey

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